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Fernand Vandenbogaerde (born in 1946): Tlatoani, Emperor, for the “imperial” Bösendorfer piano and fixed sounds; Une et Multiple, for piano and electroacoustic devices in real time; Pianos / Réunion, for 7 pianos; Helicoid, for the piano in 1/16ᵉ of a tone by Julian Carrillo and fixed sounds. Martine Joste, Cécile Chanu, Joëlle Faye, Martine Gagnepain, Marie-Claude Melmer, Délia Serban and Marie-Hélène Wiplier. 1 Terra Ignota CD. Recorded live: at the Forum des Halles on 09/29/1986 (Tlatoani, Emperor); at the Maison de la Radio in Paris, on 19/01/1980 as part of Perspectives du XXᵉ siècle; at the Piano Center in La Garenne Colombes, 03/29/2009 (Pianos/Reunion); at the International Gesellschaft für Neue Musik in Zürich on 08/10/1991 (Helicoid). Presentation note. Duration: 66:00
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This anniversary album devotes in music the 50 years of shared life of the pianist Martine Joste and the composer Fernand Vandenbogaerde. Four pieces from the 70s and 80s, including three for piano and electronics, are brought together here.
Trained early in electroacoustic techniques (with Pierre Schaeffer but also Jean-Étienne Marie), Fernand Vandenbogaerde produced a number of pieces for magnetic tape alone and mixed works, bringing together the piano of Martine Joste and the sounds of the studio. Pupil of Yves Nat at the Conservatoire de Paris, the latter will, for her part, dedicate herself to the music of our time, exploring in particular the field of microtonality (from a quarter to 1/16ᵉ of a tone) under the impetus of an inventor (Julian Carrillo) and a theoretician (Ivan Wychnegradsky).
It is on one of the fifteen pianos in 1/16ᵉ of a tone built by the Mexican Carrillo that Martine Joste interprets Helicoid (1974-75) by Fernand Vandenbogaerde, certainly the most experimental piece on this album. The 96-key keyboard covers only one octave! The tape, like the writing in clusters of the piano, seeks out the sound continuum by slow sliding over the minute divisions of the octave: play of registers, sound iridescence and plasticity of a material which merges the two sound sources. The electroacoustic part was performed at the studio of the Municipal Conservatory of Pantin, still active in 2023. The title Tlatoani, Emperor (“he who speaks”, in ancient Mexico) also alludes to the “Imperial” Bösendorfer piano for which the mixed piece was composed. The instrument is equipped with nine additional keys in the bass that the interpreter with the steel fingers works to make sound via powerful and obsessive impacts supported and amplified by the tape. The keyboard is traversed in all its registers and vertiginous glissandi oppose the iterative sounds of the tape in a movement of the sound masses as spectacular as powerful. Pianos/Meeting (1988) is a piece without electronics, written at the request of Martine Joste and dedicated to the inhabitants of Reunion Island: seven pianos in a certain order assembled (we do not specify which one) are invited to access the total sound ( the first chord sets the tone!) and activating the movement in space by relaying instruments that the panning effects let us hear: clusters, trills, drums, opposed registers and abyssal contrasts are all components of a writing which goes to extremes.
The parameters are serialized (intensities, durations, gestures) in One and Multiple (1973), the oldest work on the album and the boldest. Conceived for piano and electroacoustic devices in real time, the piece is in the wake of Mantra by Stockhausen (1970): let us specify that the young Vandenbogaerde went to work in Cologne with the German composer and uses, like him, the ring modulator to process the sound of the piano live; the discourse is eruptive, the space exploded and the process of distortion and transformation very active. The flow of rapid notes in the middle of the work is of the most beautiful effect where the sounds of the piano hybridize under the effect of the oscillator, a sound maelstrom carrying both the live source of the piano and the looped sounds of the electronics which ultimately relay the instrument. Martine Joste is sovereign, maintaining the energy of the gesture, regulating the dynamics and giving the speech its breath and its singular dramaturgy.
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Fernand Vandenbogaerde (born in 1946): Tlatoani, Emperor, for the “imperial” Bösendorfer piano and fixed sounds; Une et Multiple, for piano and electroacoustic devices in real time; Pianos / Réunion, for 7 pianos; Helicoid, for the piano in 1/16ᵉ of a tone by Julian Carrillo and fixed sounds. Martine Joste, Cécile Chanu, Joëlle Faye, Martine Gagnepain, Marie-Claude Melmer, Délia Serban and Marie-Hélène Wiplier. 1 Terra Ignota CD. Recorded live: at the Forum des Halles on 09/29/1986 (Tlatoani, Emperor); at the Maison de la Radio in Paris, on 19/01/1980 as part of Perspectives du XXᵉ siècle; at the Piano Center in La Garenne Colombes, on 03/29/2009 (Pianos/Reunion); at the International Gesellschaft für Neue Musik in Zürich on 08/10/1991 (Helicoid). Presentation note. Duration: 66:00
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